A Secret Love (Cynster, Book 5) by Stephanie Laurens

"All of Regency London is familiar with that no Cynster male could ever stroll clear of a girl in distress...but their defense can come at a tantalizingly excessive cost. And now, Stephanie Laurens has created her boldest Cynster yet--Gabriel--a guy who has identified the excitement of many girls, yet who has given his center to nobody.

She used to be determined for his help...When a mysterious girl, her face hidden via a black veil, begs Gabriel Cynster for his support, he can't refuse her plea. For regardless of her hide, Gabriel unearths the lady eye-catching and he's powerless to disclaim her. yet he exacts money as just a Cynster may call for: with every bit of data he uncovers, she needs to pay him--in the shape of a kiss.

He used to be powerless to resist...

Lady Alathea Morwellan understands Gabriel is intrigued, yet regardless of the sparks that fly among them, they've got by no means handed a civil second jointly. but because the stakes get better, so does Gabriel's hope for check. And with every one overpowering kiss, each one passionate include, Alathea is familiar with that she's going to no longer manage to withstand his final seduction...but what's going to take place whilst she unearths the truth?
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"***New York instances* bestselling writer Sabrina Jeffries delights and entertains with this novel of Regency manners and roguish passions -- 5th in her impressive university for Heiresses sequence. **

The way forward for Charlotte Harris's fi nishing institution is in jeopardy whilst an enthralling Spaniard -- world-famous magician Diego Montalvo -- arrives to show the bordering property right into a scandalous excitement backyard. Valiantly ignoring his depraved flirtations, outspoken Lucinda Seton vows to derail his plans and shop the college, unaware that Diego's real undertaking is to spirit the long-lost heiress away to Spain for a good-looking present! yet ahead of lengthy Diego's center is taking part in methods on him, and Lucy is falling less than the illusionist's spell. How can the grasp of puzzle battle through along with his devilish scheme whilst all he wishes is to make the beautiful heiress his own?
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When the Earl of Wraysbury rescues a tender girl from a carriage coincidence, he can't withstand her giggling eyes and wry humorousness, although their households were locked in a feud for generations.

Anemone will be achingly lonely yet she's unswerving to her family members. whilst she wakes up after an twist of fate within the robust palms of a good-looking stranger, she's instantly attracted to him, and appalled when she discovers he's her family's sworn enemy, the Earl of Wraysbury.

Neither Anemone nor the earl is ready for the flaring allure they suppose, or for the escalation of the conflict among their households whilst a 40-year-old secret triggers accusations of homicide. Loyalty and the specter of a perilous duel are destined to rip the lonely fans aside except they're keen to defy their households and take an opportunity on love.

"Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and he or she desires to preserve it that method. in any case, the final time she used to be the heart of consciousness, it ended badly--so badly that she replaced her identify to flee her scandalous previous. Wallflowers is probably not the prettiest of blooms, yet at the least they don't get trampled.

"In Stefanie Sloane’s lively and witty new sequence of intrigue and fervour, a devoted undercover agent learns the that means of give up. To younger Corinthian agent Marcus MacInnes, the Earl of Weston, his most modern venture related to a smuggling ring with ties to Napoleon turns out ridiculous at the start, yet turns into all too threatening as items of the puzzle start to fall into position.

That he could distribute the food to anyone who was hungry. ” She stood with her shapely hip against her palm, daring him to reverse her order, so obviously certain that he would do just that. So utterly incorrect. Better to keep her offbalance. ” She drew up her mouth into a confused frown, THE BRIDE BED 49 then nodded and ducked through an archway into a small inner ward that was moonlit and smith-iron blue, bordered by the three-storied stone keep itself, and ﬂanked by timber-picketed walks along the wall towers.

And she was in the process of making sure there wouldn’t be a next. Lord, she was so tired of it all, the war and the unrest, and the loss. Being tossed from one man to another as though she were but a ball of cording. ” It took her a quarter of an hour to settle them into the bed they shared, still another to describe in detail every minute leading up to the marriage ceremony which, thank the Lord, never happened.

Patrick shook his head. “None, my lord, I’m glad to say. At least none beyond a few of Rufus’s men-at-arms. ” Talia said, her heart still aching from the loss of two of her most well-loved and loyal men, their lives stolen in the battle between Rufus and Aymon, the guardian who’d held her wardship before him. After three weeks of siege followed by Rufus storming the walls, the blood had run freely in the bailey of Carrisford Castle. ” Talia pressed through the throng of THE BRIDE BED 37 warriors and found Collin standing on a bench.